12. - Candied Orange Peel

Remove the peel of thin-skinned oranges in quarters and steep over night in salted water. Wash in several changes of fresh water, then boil until the peel is tender, changing the boiling water if it tastes salty. When the peel is tender drain it and cut into shreds if desired; or leave it whole. To each pound of peel use 1 pound of sugar and 1 pint of water; bring the syrup to a boil and skim ; then put in the peel and simmer until the syrup is nearly all absorbed, then boil rapidly, stirring to coat the peel with the sugar. Dry in a warm oven or in the hot sun.

13. - Fish Cakes With Orange Sauce.

Heat 2 cupfuls of cold cooked fish in 1 cupful of cream sauce, add the beaten yolks of 2 eggs and remove at once from the fire; mix thoroughly and put aside to cool. When cold form into cakes, roll in beaten egg and bread crumbs and fry in hot fat. For the sauce melt 1 tablespoonful of butter, add 1 tablespoonful of flour and when it bubbles, add the juice of 1 orange with water to make 1 cupful, season with salt and paprika.

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14. - Orange Marmalade Sweethearts

Cut puff-paste with a heart-shaped cutter, place two hearts together and bake in a hot oven. When done split and place on half the hearts 1 spoonful of orange marmalade, cover with the remaining hearts and ice the top with boiled icing.

15. - Louisville Salad

Dice the pulp of 1 orange for each person to be served and arrange on lettuce leaves; add to each portion 1 tablespoonful of coarsely chopped pecans and dressing made with 1 tablespoonful of oil to 1/2 tablespoonful of lemon juice and salt to taste.

16. - Orange Cake With Milk Icing

Cream 1/2 cupful of butter with 1 1/2 cupfuls of sugar, add 3/4 cupful of sweet milk, the beaten yolks of 4 eggs, 2 cupfuls of flour sifted with 1 teaspoonful of baking-powder and the beaten whites of 4 eggs. Bake in layers and put together with the following Orange Milk Icing: Boil 2 cupfuls of sugar with 1 cupful of milk for ten minutes, pour into a bowl and stir until cool; have 1/2 an orange grated, pulp and peel together, and the juice of 1 orange; add this to the sugar and beat until cold.

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17. - Nut Pudding With Orange Sauce

Pour 2 cupfuls of boiling milk on 1 cupful of soft bread crumbs; add 3/4 cupful of sugar, 1 cupful of chopped nuts, the beaten yolks of 2 eggs and the juice and grated rind of 1 orange; when well mixed add the beaten whites of 2 eggs, and bake forty minutes. Sauce : To 1 cupful of boiling water add 1 dessertspoonful of corn-starch wet with a little milk and boil ten minutes. Have 1/2. cupful of butter creamed with 2 1/2 cupfuls of sugar; pour the boiling corn-starch over this and beat well; reheat it, add the juice and the grated rind of 1/2 an orange, 1 glassful of white wine, and serve.